Myocardial infarction associated with cocaine abuse.

abstract：:Influenza causes cardiac and pulmonary complications that can lead to death. Its effect on the conduction system, first described a century ago, has long been thought to be fairly benign. We report 2 cases of high-grade atrioventricular block associated with acute influenza infection. Both patients-a 50-year-old woman...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Ergle K,Gooden JY,Ahmed MM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benefit of defibrillator therapy has been well established for patients with LV dysfunction (ejection fraction less than 35%), coronary artery disease, NSVT, and inducible and nonsuppressible ventricular tachycardia. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy is also indicated for all CHF patients in NYHA func...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Khoshnevis GR,Massumi A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the structural and functional heart adaptations of 52 male triathletes compared with those of 22 active, nonathletic men, by 2-dimensional Doppler echocardiography. Left ventricular diastolic function was evaluated by recording transmitral flow velocities. To exclude the influences of preload, left atrial p...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Claessens PJ,Claessens CW,Claessens MM,Claessens MC,Claessens JE

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortoiliac occlusive disease is a frequently encountered occlusive arterial disease. Different surgical approaches to the infrarenal abdominal aorta have been reported. We retrospectively studied the postoperative outcomes of patients who were treated for aortoiliac occlusive disease via a retroperitoneal versus a tra...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Emrecan B,Onem G,Ocak E,Arslan M,Yagci B,Baltalarli A,Akdag B

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celiac artery aneurysms are rare and typically warrant surgical treatment. Atherosclerosis is their chief cause. Symptomatic patients usually present with abdominal pain. Surgical resection of celiac artery aneurysms is associated with low morbidity and mortality rates. We report the case of a patient whose 2.2-cm cel...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Pattakos G,Tolpin D,Ott DA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 2002 through June 2004, 17 patients (2% of all coronary cases) were treated with off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting combined with percutaneous coronary intervention. There were 13 men and 4 women, whose ages ranged from 54 to 78 years (mean, 63.1 +/- 20.9 yr). Preoperative angiography revealed 2-ves...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Us MH,Basaran M,Yilmaz M,Yaymaci B,Ulusoy E,Sanioglu S,Ozbek C,Arslan Y,Pocan S,Yilmaz AT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Right ventricular failure secondary to pulmonary embolism is associated with morbidity and death. The Impella RP System has often been used for percutaneous mechanical circulatory support in patients with right ventricular failure from other causes, including myocardial infarction, cardiac surgery, and left ventricula...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Shokr M,Rashed A,Mostafa A,Mohamad T,Schreiber T,Elder M,Kaki A

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60-year-old man with an acute inferior-wall myocardial infarction was noted, on arteriography, to have an occluded distal right coronary artery. The vessel was reopened with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator; during resolution of the clot, spasm was observed arteriographically but was successfully treated wit...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Karim AH,Bennett W,Silver SJ,Kleiman NS,Goodman D,Heibig J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three groups of consecutive patients who had undergone primary elective coronary artery bypass operations were compared at 10 to 20 years of follow-up (mean, 13.6 years), in order to test the supposition that arterial conduits provide better long-term outcome than do the "standard" left internal mammary-to-left anteri...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Korompai FL,Knight WL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimally invasive cardiac surgery is rapidly gaining interest because of fast recovery, reduced morbidity, shorter hospital stay, lower costs, and better cosmetic results. Aortic valve surgery can be performed through a small (10- to 12-cm) transverse sternal incision, and femoro-femoral cannulation is used for cardi...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： De Amicis V,Ascione R,Iannelli G,Di Tommaso L,Monaco M,Spampinato N

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 14-year-old boy who developed ischemic contracture of the heart after open heart surgery to correct complex congenital heart disease. Because he had no cardiac function, an extracorporeal, continuous-flow device was used to support him until he was transferred to our institution. Shortly after ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Frazier OH,Gregoric ID,Messner GN

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present herein the case of a 48-year-old patient who had undergone repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous return at the age of 14 months, in March 1960, at Texas Children's Hospital. When this patient voluntarily underwent re-examination in 2007, echocardiography revealed the late results of surgery that had be...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Cooley DA,Cabello OV,Preciado FM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cases of 2 patients who presented with clinical and echocardiographic evidence of cardiac tamponade. Therapeutic echocardiographic-guided pericardiocentesis yielded bloody fluid. In both patients, Definity perflutren lipid microspheres were used for echocardiographic contrast, which helped to assess the ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Escabí-Mendoza JE,Martínez-Díaz JD,Avilés-Rivera ED

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient with a patent, infected vascular graft presents a dilemma to the surgeon, who must decide whether revascularization is necessary in addition to removal of the infected graft. When a graft infection points superficially or requires drainage, the graft may be well enough exposed to provide easy access. A tec...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Lawrence PF

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amiodarone therapy for the treatment of arrhythmias has been found to have severe side effects. Although the drug has been prescribed in Europe for more than 20 years, it has only recently been used in the United States as an investigational drug, and has been found to cause pulmonary toxicity, as well as other major ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Liss G,Leachman RD

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary obstruction, a rare complication of transcatheter aortic valve replacement, can be fatal. Few data exist on this phenomenon, and, to date, authors have reported only single coronary lesions. We present a case in which 2 coronary arteries obstructed immediately after transapical transcatheter aortic valve repl...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Kaneko U,Koshima R,Doi H,Fujita T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the following review, we outline the cellular ontogeny and time course of coronary artery development within the vertebrate heart. Our eventual focus will be the potential role of arteriogenesis in the differentiation of a subset of specialized conduction cells in the chick heart. We begin by briefly outlining earl...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Harris BS,O'Brien TX,Gourdie RG

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the rarity of isolated, nonrheumatic, noninfective tricuspid valvular disease, the long-term results of treatment by tricuspid valve replacement are uncertain. From June 1967 to April 1986, we implanted 23 biological or mechanical tricuspid valve prostheses in 20 patients for nonrheumatic, noninfective endo...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Renzulli A,Goudevenos I,Santé P,Naik S,Behl PR,Blesovsky A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-month-old boy with a structurally normal heart presented with signs of cardiac tamponade caused by purulent pericarditis. During his hospital stay, mitral and tricuspid valve endocarditis developed, and a ventricular septal abscess expanded despite appropriate, prolonged antibiotic therapy for methicillin-resista...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Yoon JK,Rahimi MB,Fiore A,Schowengerdt K,Jureidini SB

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a modified technique for advancing a catheter or sheath into the right common carotid artery when the aortic arch anatomy is unfavorable.A standard 0.035-inch guidewire is passed into the right subclavian artery, and a diagnostic catheter is threaded over it, deep into the right axillary and brachial artery....

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Gupta K,Biria M,Mortazavi A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac myxomas are primary cardiac tumors. In some cases of atrial myxoma, the standard left atriotomy alone does not enable safe tumor resection and easy access to the mitral valve. We report the cases of 2 patients with huge left atrial myxomas associated with severe mitral valve regurgitation who underwent an inve...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Davoli G,Muzzi L,Lucchese G,Uricchio N,Chiavarelli M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface electrocardiogram can be simply described as the P, QRS, and T (and U) waves, together with PR and ST segments. However, it is actually the summation of the action potential from the sinoatrial node, the atria, the atrioventricular node, the His-Purkinje system, and the ventricles. Although the action pote...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Shih HT

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a technique of intravalvular implantation of a low-profile prosthesis that has been used in nine patients with mitral valve lesions. This technique preserves the anterior and posterior chordae and papillary mechanisms, which may decrease the incidence of postoperative left ventricular dysfunction that has ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Cooley DA,Ingram MT

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situations where severe femoropopliteal disease is present and profundoplasty is deemed unreliable, successful revascularization is not usually possible. A technique is presented that increases the accessibility for repair and may improve the limb salvage rate in those patients considered nonoperable by other techn...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Del Campo C

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 69-year-old man with a history of hypertension and a recent pelvic fracture who presented with acute chest pain, shortness of breath, and severe hypotension. The history of recent pelvic fracture and the clinical manifestations, including the sudden onset of acute respiratory distress, hypoten...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Neri E,Toscano T,Civeli L,Capannini G,Tucci E,Sassi C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We modified the technique of patch repair for postinfarction ventricular septal rupture by beginning with a larger-than-needed circular patch and later trimming it into a 3-dimensional patch to match the size of the exclusion area. This technique makes it easier to determine the optimal size for the patch, and the com...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Fujiwara H,Sugano T,Someya T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, researchers have investigated the relationship between biological markers of inflammation and prognosis in patients who experience acute coronary syndromes; however, the association between plasma fibrinogen and coronary heart disease is still not clear. We studied the prognostic value of fibrinogen, ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Shi Y,Wu Y,Bian C,Zhang W,Yang J,Xu G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe diffuse obstruction of the coronary arteries was diagnosed in an 18-month-old girl who presented with signs and symptoms of severe congestive cardiomyopathy. Most reported cases of myocardial infarction in neonates or infants have been secondary to obstruction of a single major coronary artery owing to thrombos...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Park IS,Lufschanowski R,Angelini P,Leachman RD

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing atrial sounds is unusual during atrial flutter and rare during atrial fibrillation. We report a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and coarse atrial fibrillation in whom atrial sounds were recorded phonocardiographically during endocardial atrial electrography. The atrial sounds were recorded phonocardio...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Hill PE,Amos L,Haines DE

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombosis involving a permanent infusion catheter in the subclavian vein and superior vena cava is relatively common, especially in cancer patients. Edema of the arms and head is a well-known clinical consequence of this thrombosis, with an intrinsic risk of pulmonary embolism; however, systemic embolization into the...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Nascimbene A,Angelini P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00